Muhammad Rehan "Rehan" - Program in Indo-European Studies

Research

2025: Research Assistant to Prof. Brent Vine, Department of Classics, UCLA
2023–present: Research Assistant to Prof. David Goldstein, Department of Linguistics, UCLA

Forthcoming: “Gk. μοιχός ‘adulterer’: Re-mixing a piss-poor etymology”, Proceedings of the 35th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
2023: “Gendered Language in Aristophanes’ ‘Birds.’” in Persephone: The Harvard Undergraduate Classics Journal Vol. 8.1 (Spring 2023): 12-29.
2023: “Between Need, Want, Material and Innate Beauty: Tracing Shades of Erōs.” in Corvus Vol. 13 (Spring 2023): 27-35.
2023: “Mind your Language Mister! A Case Study in Aristophanic Humor.“ in Animus: University of Chicago Classical Journal Vol. 3.1 (Winter 2023): 36-51.

Oct, 2025: Converging computational evidence against an East-Germanic clade (with Sean Liu and Marc Canby). WeCIEC 36: Annual UCLA Indo–European Conference
Aug, 2025: Issues of lexical cognacy encoding in IE-CoR (with Tom Francis, Klaus Kim, and Laura McLean). International Conference on Historical Linguistics 27
July 9, 2025: Population size has a weak effect on phoneme inventory size. LSA Summer Institute, Poster Session.
July 3, 2025: Origins and nature of food vocabulary in English. Classics 185: Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary, UCLA
June, 2025: Re-evaluating the word-medial operation of the Saussure-Hirt effect in Greek. International Conference on Ancient Greek Linguistics
April, 2025: Word-final voicing in Hittite? Southern California Annual Meeting on Phonology
October, 2024: “Re-mixing a piss-poor etymology: on Gk. μοιχός and OE (ge)māh” WeCIEC 35: Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
July 11, 2024: “Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend: Sanskrit loanwords into English” Classics 185: Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary, UCLA
June 28, 2024: “Towards an integrative approach to the investigation of linguistic phylogenies” 5th Munich-UCLA Historical Linguistics Colloquium (Presentation Materials available here)
May 29, 2024: “FSAs, FSTs and sequence alignment in phylogenetic studies: The case of Tocharian B” UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies Graduate Seminar

Summer 2025: Instructor of Record for Historical Linguistics (LING-110), UCLA
Spring 2025: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (LING-20), UCLA— Faculty Supervisor: Professor Anoop Mahajan
Spring 2025: Undergraduate supervisor for LING-197 (Infants’ discrimination of phonetic contrasts), UCLA— Faculty Supervisor: Professor Megha Sundara
Winter 2025: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (LING-20), UCLA— Faculty Supervisor: Professor Ben Eischens
Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Historical Linguistics (LING-110), UCLA— Faculty Supervisor: Professor David Goldstein
Summer 2024: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to the Study of Language (LING-1), UCLA— Faculty Supervisor: Corrina Fuller
Fall 2021: Instructor of Record for Urdu (ALS-100), Grinnell College